I know that in the last version of Void Image ViewerNavigate > Shuffle
command was added.
The problem is that Void Image Viewer supports only images...
But it is open source program that works with Everything.
Maybe one know how to make the needed tweaks.

EDIT:

added randomized everything search option

Randomized Everything Search is a very efficient way to randomly view any image on your computer:

In void Image Viewer, Press Ctrl + E

Type in a search, or leave the search empty to randomize all images on your computer.

Check Randomize.

Click OK.

There is no play list in randomized mode, so there is no going back to the previous image.

(Until he does that ) my work-around is to write the wanted Everything results, sorted by name, to a .m3u file, with a separate (Everything) shortcut that opens that .m3u, loading in my media player. It's OK, but a bit awkward.

But ...
Personally I would go for a software music player that supports playing music files in random order. That's probably 75% of the playrs out there. foobar, MusicBee, MediaMonkey are the first that come to my mind. Keywords: random and shuffle.

I am trying for a situation where I am not using a media player for anything except playback.

Also I do not want to have to use a script to do the randomizing.
(I just want to be able to click a button, or something like that.)

I'm hoping for a sort order that does the randomizing right in the search tool.

NotNull, thank you very much though, for the ideas to try.

I can do all kinds of shuffle the order of playback in various media players.

That's not what I want.

I want to search my hard drive for any filetype I choose at the moment,
for example, it may be *.mp3, or it may be *.mp4, or *.txt, etc.

Then when the search results show up, I wish to be able to go to the top of the
list and start clicking on the files and be surprised by various content.

The content I click on will surprise me because I never know what content
will show up at the top of the randomized sort order.

It's all about finding various ways to stimulate myself with random content.
That's part of my creative process.

For example, I wish I knew a way to search Youtube where I would be presented with
random video content, rather than going only to my usual search habits there.

So perhaps a random video may show up about a subatomic particle, or a clarinet trio,
or deep sea lifeforms, or an existentialist philosopher biography, or life in ancient
Mesopotamia, etc. Sort of like Wikipedia random article search:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

I wish to be able to do random sort order with the content of my hard drive, for creative inspiration purposes.

frew wrote:
For example, I wish I knew a way to search Youtube where I would be presented with
random video content, rather than going only to my usual search habits there.

So perhaps a random video may show up about a subatomic particle, or a clarinet trio,
or deep sea lifeforms, or an existentialist philosopher biography, or life in ancient
Mesopotamia, etc. Sort of like Wikipedia random article search:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Still trying to think of ways to have Everything search results be accessible
to me in randomized sort order.

How to search my hard drive for all .wav, for example, and then sort them randomly.

Just seems like such a fun feature.
Sometimes in searching for something it's fun not only to find what one was looking for,
but also to find some other somewhat related things along the way that may be pleasant surprises too.

So it turns out my media player's "random" playlist function was not random "enough".
At some point, I was hearing repeats (at least what I thought was repeats).
(My car probably is the same, its' "Mix All" is not "mixed" enough, nor do I think it's getting "all" in its' mix.)